Full circle rainbow

Partly because of my embarrassment to capture any pictures of rainbow this year, I dug up my old idea about how to create a circular rainbow and went to a local shop.

After few hours with some assistance, a bent-looking sprinklers frame was completed (1). The first test on 2 June 2011 was somewhat unsuccessful because the sun was too high and I could not find a right angle to see the whole rainbow circle.

For a few days, rain storm after rain storm poured down over Bangkok, with no sunlight in the morning. On 5 June 2011, a heavy rain hit Bangkok again before sunrise, but the sun appeared around 7:30 AM. Many rainbow shots were taken (2) and the photos were stitched together by “AutoStitch” on a PC.

Place : Bangkok, Thailand
Time : Sunday 6 June 2011, approx. 7:44 AM
Rainbow Equipments : A row of sprinklers placed approximately 4 meters above the street
Digital Camera : Ricoh GX200 + 19 mm. wide angle lens
Exposure : 1/200 sec , f/4.1 , ISO 64, Daylight setting
Photo Processing : 4 pictures, stitched together by ‘AutoStitch’ on a PC, no image enhancement

Author: Pitan Singhasaneh, Bangkok, Thailand